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Not an issue - (my site seems to work fine, a little bit faster. not sure I saw 40% though...) - but what is the ‘Flat Catalog’ and ‘Flat Products’? What does it do? What’s good and what might not be good with it? If it speed things up it seems like a mandatory feature, but still…